REFLECTION: Odyssey ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ CD. True Epic Doom Heavy Metal concept album. Epic! Check audio

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Full-length, Secret Port Records
This is a concept album inspired by Homers “Odyssey”. Mid paced epic/power metal with nice guitars and excellent keyboards. The whole album is full of narrations and galloping rhythms. In the first song (The Adventure Begins) we have the chorus sang by several voices in a chanting pace and a very powerful and epic narration breaks through it and sings poems to the gods and to Odysseus. In general we get this kind of compositions several times in this album.
The guitar parts in most of the songs are very enchanting and majestic.
There are also a few fast songs in this album like The Return Of The King or Slaughter In The Island Of The Sun where, again the guitars and the solos are very epic and powerful sending shivers down your spine.
Kalypso is a slow song with keyboards, classic guitars and vocals only. This will take you away to the land of the ancient Greece.

Lineup: Chris Kappas – Vocals, Stathis Pavlandis – Guitars, John Tolakis- Bass, Kostis Anastasopoulos- Keyboards, George Pavlandis- Drums

Reflection is one of my favorite Greek bands. I have been following the group’s career almost since the very first Sire of the Storm 7″ release and firmly believe that these guys deserve worldwide fame. The Odyssey album simply confirms that belief of mine. There is no doubt that this is one of the top 5 Greek heavy metal albums of all time (with no sense of exaggeration at all), destined to become a classic and once you get a taste of the band?s music you will feel the same.

In Odyssey, the band has managed to create the ultimate mythological concept album about Ulysses and his adventures. The key parts of the Ulysses story are unraveled in a magnificent way, both in terms of lyrics and music. The songs are as epic as they can get with the music being very heavy but melodic as well, enriched by pompous narrations. The guys shift from doom to power (and vice versa) with ease, getting to the very bottom of each story?s feeling and atmosphere. Reflection can be categorized as an epic power metal band but not in the common European fashion since it has clearly adopted some neoclassical elements and an old fashioned American metal touch. Large part of the credit goes to the guitar work of sole songwriter Stathis Pavlandis, not the boring virtuoso kind but the type of guitarist that performs with loads of feeling and passion.

Albums with the quality and class of Odyssey are very hard to come by these days so no real heavy metal fan should miss this treasure.

1. The Adventure Begins 04:58
2. The Forbidden Seed 04:48
3. Cyclops 03:39
4. Αιολοs (Aeolos) 02:09
5. Giants (Lestrygons Land) 04:43
6. The Sorceress 03:52
7. Journey to the Other Side 07:34
8. Σειρηνεs (Sirens) 02:54
9. Between Bitch and Charibdis 05:41
10. Slaughter in the Island of the sun 03:59
11. Kalypso 05:03
12. Beware of the Night 05:09
13. Who Will Dare to Bend the Bow 05:09
14. The Return of the King 04:35
15. Εξοδιο (Outro) 02:04
01:06:17

A concept album about Odyssey (Homers epic tale about Odysseus). The music is very good, epic/power metal in mid paces with nice guitars and excellent keyboards. The whole album is full of narrations and galloping rhythms. In the first song (The Adventure Begins) we have the chorus sang by several voices in a chanting pace and a very powerful and epic narration breaks through it and sings poems to the gods and to Odysseus. In general we get this kind of composition several times in this album.

The guitars in most of the songs are very enchanting and majestic, they sound like crying for Odysseus’ passions on his way home. In the songs Between Bitch And Charybdis for example, Journey To The Other Side or in Cyclops you get this feeling… loads of mid/slow paced heavy and melodic guitars and very discreet keyboard patterns that make the music sound majestic and weeping together.

There are also a few fast songs in this album like The Return Of The King or Slaughter In The Island Of The Sun where, again the guitars and the solos are very epic and powerful sending shivers down your spine.

One song to also notice is Kalypso, a slow song with keyboards, classic guitars and vocals only. It sounds like a cradle that takes you away to the land of the ancient Greece with nymphs and satyrs.

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